CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

SCHEDULE[1]--FALL 2000

COURSE RESOURCES ONLINE         COURSE INFORMATION          TESTS AND QUESTIONNAIRES

For detailed schedule and reading assignments, go to Topics  separate pages, clicking on each:

8/21 - 8/25
 TOPIC 1 - INTRODUCTION
8/28 - 9/1
 TOPIC 2 - OVERVIEW OF GREEK MYTHS AND RITUALS
9/6 - 9/8 
 TOPIC 3 - THE CREATION OF MAN; THE FABRICATION OF WOMAN 
9/11 - 9/15
 TOPIC 4 - PATRIARCHY AND MARRIAGE
9/18 - 9/22
 TOPIC 5 - SEXUALITY IN GREEK MYTH AND HISTORY
9/25 - 9/29
 TOPIC 6 - BEST AND WORST MYTHIC WOMEN
10/2 - 10/6 
 TOPIC 7 - BEST AND WORST MYTHIC MEN
10/7-10/13
 TOPIC 8 - US AND THEM: "BARBARIANS"
10/16-10/30
 TOPIC 9 - THE FABRICATION OF ANCESTORS
11/1-11/3
 TOPIC 10 - SLAVERY 
11/6-11/17
 TOPIC 11 - QUELLING SUBVERSION: MYTHS OF SUCCESSION
11/20-11/27
 TOPIC 12 - ARISTOPHANES: ON WHOSE SIDE?
11/29-12/1 SYNTHESIS AND REVIEW-STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
MON, 12/11, 2-5 pm FINAL EXAM - BRING A BLUE SCANTRON SHEET

NOTE:



LIST OF BOOKS

REQUIRED[1]:

1) Cartledge, Paul. The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others. Oxford. ISBN 0-19-289147-2
2) Prometheus Bound and other plays, transl. Philip Vellacott, Penguin Classics, 1976. ISBN: 0140441123
3) Hesiod, Works and Days,The Theogony, transl. S. Lombardo, Hackett. ISBN 0-8-7220179-1
4) Aristophanes, Lysistrata, transl. D. Parker. Penguin Mentor. ISBN 0-451-62495-5
5) Euripides One: Four Tragedies (Alcestis, Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus), University of Chicago Press,1990.
SBN: 0226307808
6) Euripides Three: Four Tragedies (Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion)  University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0226307824.
RECOMMENDED:
Mark P. O. Morford & Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN: 0471368911[2]
[1]  The ancient texts, i.e. all of these titles except #1, may be read on the web (in Perseus and other sites).  The online translations, however, because they must be out of copyright, are usually written in old-fashioned in style and outdated in scholarship.  There will be copies of the required texts on reserve in the library.

[2]   The publisher of this textbook has posted a condensed version online, intended to be a companion to the book.  See the link on top of this page.  Used copies of prior editions are less valuable; students are advised not to use any edition earlier than the 5th.  A copy of this book will be on reserve.